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wiley Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern Irish and Scottish: variant of Wylie.
  2. Possibly also English, a habitational name from Wylye in Wiltshire, named for the Wylye river (see Wilton).
  3. English: possibly a variant of Willey.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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wiley Family Facts

Distribution of wiley Families in the US in 1920
Number of wiley families
 249-496
 84-248
 1-83
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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